Commission on Filipinos Overseas

Laguna 10:18 AM, Apr 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

Dear Ryan Adam,

Thank you for your request dated Apr 25, 2019 02:29:03 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Number of Filipino Emigrants for 2013 - 2019.

We received your request on Apr 25, 2019 02:29:03 PM and will respond on or before May 16, 2019 02:29:03 PM, in accordance with the Executive Order's implementing rules and regulations.

Should you have any questions regarding your request, kindly contact me using the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://www.foi.gov.ph/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEENGTy0yNjA5MDA0Njk1OTcM, for request with ticket number #CFO-260900469597.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Elfred del Rosario
FOI Receiving Officer

Pimentel-Naik 02:28 PM, May 06, 2019

06 May 2019


Dear Mr. Ceñidoza,

Greetings from the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO)!

Thank you for your inquiry regarding the number of Filipino emigrants.

As the CFO’s primary clientele are the emigrants who will permanently live in other countries, we are pleased to provide you with a link to statistics of CFO-registered emigrants by age, education, sex, civil status, occupation, country of destination, and place of origin. These numbers include annual statistics on Filipinos who underwent the CFO’s mandatory Pre-departure Orientation Seminar (PDOS) for emigrants, or Guidance and Counseling Program (GCP) for spouses or partners of foreign nationals prior to their departure.

https://www.cfo.gov.ph/downloads/statistics/statistical-profile-of-registered-filipino-emigrants.html

We are also pleased to share with you the link to the CFO’s Compendium of Statistics on International Migration which features the yearly stock estimates of overseas Filipinos, the number of registered Filipino emigrants, spouses and partners of foreign nationals, US Exchange Visitor Program (EVP) participants, Au Pairs, and data on financial and material contributions of overseas Filipinos to the Philippines coursed through the CFO's Lingkod sa Kapwa Pilipino (LINKAPIL) program.

https://cfo.gov.ph/images/pdf/pdf-migration/2014-CFO-Statistical-Compendium.pdf 

The primary sources for the stock estimate are the registration data of emigrants and other clientele of the CFO (for permanent migrants), overseas employment data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (for temporary migrants), and consolidated reports (including irregular migrants) from the more than eighty Foreign Service posts of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

However, temporary migrants, or overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), are not required to register with the CFO before their departure from the Philippines. They are instead required to register with and obtain their Overseas Employment Certificates (OECs) from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). The link below that contains information about OFWs and other professions by skill and by country might help you:

http://poea.gov.ph/ofwstat/ofwstat.html

For questions or clarifications, you may contact the CFO’s Policy, Planning and Research Division at 552-4763 or through email at dr.elfred@gmail.com.

To further improve our services, may we also kindly request for your feedback through this link: https://goo.gl/forms/FeSqdqLNMoNkInCo2 (Policy, Planning and Research Division Client Satisfaction Form). The form is brief and will only take a minute to complete.

Thank you and best regards.


Very truly yours,



Elfred Ulysses del Rosario
Emigrant Services Officer II
Policy, Planning and Research Division
Commission on Filipinos Overseas